スペルロンガのおすすめウォーキング＆ハイキングルート

Well-maintained seafront, with an excellent cycle path for safe cycling, even for the less experienced.

Please note the opening hours. Parking was under construction and the entrance was very narrow.

it's OK

beautiful place with nice restaurants

Review of Sperlonga and the beaches

The Grotto of Tiberius is the most spectacular part of the Roman villa of Sperlonga. The enormous natural ravine is preceded by a large rectangular fish pond of sea water that housed an artificial island in the center that served as a summer caenatio, or the place where Tiberius and his court ate in the summer. The grotto was decorated with marble statues of enormous artistic value dedicated to the saga of Ulysses and sculpted by Greek artists from Rhodes. It is thought that these famous craftsmen stayed in the villa to finish the statues previously sketched in the workshop. The bottom of the grotto was decorated with frescoes and masonry works that divided the room into rooms and alcoves. Near the alcove, the remains of frescoes and decorations created with local shells and the spaces where the beds were probably placed are still visible. Above the external opening of the grotto there was the statue of a beautiful Ganymede kidnapped by the eagle Zeus. The fish pond communicates with the circular pool in the center of the cave where the sculptural group of the attack on the monster of Scylla, the most majestic of the four, stood out in a scenic position. Then there was the group of the blinding of Polyphemus, that of the abduction of the Palladium and that of Ulysses dragging the body of Achilles.

The Museum was specifically built to house the monumental sculptural groups found in thousands of fragments at the end of the 1950s in the famous Grotto that opens onto the sea, a characteristic element of a vast residential complex usually identified with the praetorium, or palace, owned by the emperor Tiberius.

The Museum was built specifically to house the monumental sculptural groups found in thousands of fragments at the end of the 1950s in the famous Grotto that opens onto the sea, a characteristic element of a vast residential complex usually identified with the praetorium, or palace, owned by the emperor Tiberius. Four main groups have been identified so far, depicting the exploits of Ulysses: the blinding of Polyphemus by the hero and some companions, the attack of the monster Scylla on the ship and the killing of six companions suffocated by the coils of snakes, the abduction of the Palladium from the Trojan temple of Athena by Ulysses and Diomedes, and finally the so-called Pasquino, in which Ulysses dragging the body of Achilles has recently been recognized.